last commit mismatch

[ReenigneArcher]

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shields.io

🐞 Description

I have some mirrors of gitlab repos, and as quick check to see if they're sync I thought I could use Shields.io badges to do so.

Unfortunately, in a few cases the last commits are out of sync (not in the actual mirror though). Of the 6 repos I'm mirroring, only 2 have a mismatch in the badge values.

Name	Upstream Repo	Mirror
libxcvt
Simple-Web-Server
wayland-protocols
wlr-protocols
xauth
xserver

For the wlr-protocols mirror (GitHub), it was clearly updated 5 months ago (October 2024), so not sure why the badge is showing March 2023.

For the xserver mirror (GitHub), it was also clearly updated 5 days ago (Last Friday), but this one only shows the month (March). I don't know if the GitHub last commit badge gets as granular as the Gitlab one.

🔗 Link to the badge

Name	Upstream Repo	Mirror
wlr-protocols
xserver

• https://img.shields.io/gitlab/last-commit/wlroots%2Fwlr-protocols?gitlab_url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.freedesktop.org&style=for-the-badge&logo=gitlab
• https://img.shields.io/github/last-commit/LizardByte-infrastructure/wlr-protocols?style=for-the-badge&logo=github
• https://img.shields.io/gitlab/last-commit/xorg%2Fxserver?gitlab_url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.freedesktop.org&style=for-the-badge&logo=gitlab
• https://img.shields.io/github/last-commit/LizardByte-infrastructure/xserver?style=for-the-badge&logo=github

💡 Possible Solution

Unsure.

[chris48s]

Fundamentally this is the difference between author timestamp and committer timestamp:

• https://img.shields.io/github/last-commit/LizardByte-infrastructure/wlr-protocols?display_timestamp=author (default)
• https://img.shields.io/github/last-commit/LizardByte-infrastructure/wlr-protocols?display_timestamp=committer

$ curl --silent "https://api.github.com/repos/LizardByte-infrastructure/wlr-protocols/commits?per_page=1" | jq 'map({author: {date: .commit.author.date}, committer: {date: .commit.committer.date}})[]'
{
  "author": {
    "date": "2023-03-18T19:24:44Z"
  },
  "committer": {
    "date": "2024-10-08T20:03:48Z"
  }
}

[ReenigneArcher]

Thanks for looking into this.

I also noticed a mismatch with BitBucket. https://github.com/LizardByte-infrastructure#-mirrors

It would be nice if they could utilize the same logic between the different git backends. Not critical though.